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The Aspect War – Prologue (0)
Posted by Ebonstorm on December 2, 2012
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Slumber
She slept.
If you can call this thing of nightmare a her; dragon scales rippled with a watery sheen and the ever-so slight rise and fall of her breath. Each scale shone as if it were comprised both of darkness and the tiniest slivers of light. It was once said that, to stare at them was to be lost in their shimmer, and for a moment witness destruction spanning thousands of years in a single second. Seeing her was to court madness.
She dreamed. She once roamed the Earth, free and the world trembled. She inspired legends of terrible djinn, fiends from worlds beyond, all were tales of her or her many, many children. She incited madness, lust for power, and ultimately the destruction of all she and her children touched. Sodom and Gomorrah were both victims of her wrath. Mad prophets would later claim it was some other god. Soon after, she consumed said prophets; mangy, stringy things, which stuck in her teeth and gave her a bout of indigestion, but could never find all of the books that took the credit away from her and were later published.
Thinking of those mad prophets made her think of dusty Babylon. Brilliant Babylon knew how to treat a being of her stature, they worshiped her, revered her and gave her the proper homage until they too betrayed her. Cast her into darkness, silenced her destruction. As a parting gift she destroyed their Hanging Gardens and left a seed that would ensure their ultimate destruction.
They could not kill her, she was a god. But they could imprison her and cast her into a darkness that lasted for millennia. A cooling soothing darkness, one which softened her rage, quieted her powers and hid her from the view of man. The darkness was connected to the Void and the Void was everywhere and nowhere. And for a time, she was forgotten. Many of her children were destroyed by heroes of various ages, eventually forced into hiding or exile, lest they too be destroyed. And they too were forgotten.
The darkness hid her terrible bulk, shuttered away beyond the light from the early morning. The green canopy overhead blocked all but the most determined of misty light and kept much of her from view. The monolithic temple hid the rest of her. She was not a thing most humans would want to see. In fact, no human had seen her this way for over a thousand years. Those that had, inspired new religions, talk of serpent gods and the destruction of the world.
She slept easily during those times. They made sacrifice to her and she grew strong again. But she could not attract attention. So during the night, one night a thousand years ago, she drew her new people to her into the Void and they waited, serving her, making new things, and waiting. No human had seen her since. And she preferred to keep it that way, until the prophecy spoken of two thousand years ago came to pass.
This dragon, this monstrosity of scales, this frightening creature of myth and legend, this mother of monsters, eater of men, ravager of worlds, slept deeply and dreamed of mad prophets who said she would return to the world. She had a special penchant for those mad prophets, who even today, preached the revelation of her return, free from constraint, free from morality, free to sow and reap humans like the wheat of dusty Babylon. Such dreams gave this living monstrosity a fearsome shudder and the humans nearby for a thousand miles, in every direction experienced an earthquake.
These quakes were becoming more common for them, more powerful, some causing nightmares. Dreams of more terrible quakes to come, some that spoke of a time, where monsters would rise up and slay men and bathe in their blood. No one ever spoke of such nightmares. Even to acknowledge them seem to drive men to madness. So most kept doing what they always did, living lives of quiet desperation.
Even in her sleep, their fear and terror fed her, pleased her, and for a moment excited her. Then she returned to sleep, a deeper sleep, and in that sleep, she dreamed again. And often those dreams were the stuff of human nightmare, capsizing ships, destroying buildings, releasing volcanoes. Today she dreamed a dream of modern life, putting on a business suit, dark blue, carrying a slim and stylish briefcase and going to work; an insurance firm in New York City, specializing in insuring the rare, the expensive and things so valuable they were irreplaceable. She would not work there very long. Just long enough to ensure that some of those things would cease to exist, through unfortunate accidents, hostile takeovers, theft, extortion or murder; a woman simply has to have hobbies between attempts to destroy the world.
He woke.
The first thing he noticed was the chill. It was a pervasive thing, it felt as if it froze the very marrow of his bones. Not normally affected by weather, he found the sensation unpleasant, but not unbearable. Standing up, he began to take in his surroundings. There was no light — no that is not right, there was no normal source of light. No lantern, no torch, no lamp, no light bulb; yet the room gave off a subtle luminescence, centered on where he sat. Driving his vision further past the illumination, he noticed that there was a radius to the field of unlight and the area he was sitting in was larger than he was able to initially perceive.
"Curious." The sound of his voice, flew free. Encoded with his desire, it fled into the darkness and did not return. The very nature of its failure told him everything he needed to know. This subtle use of his power told him he was not in the world as he knew it. He realized he must be in a nearby Shard or worse, lost in the Void. As he considered this, his apprehension began to take shape.
Almost casually, he inspected himself and found everything seemed to be normal. He was still wearing the grey and black suit and vest common to his attire and the last thing he remembered wearing to work. His shirt was still the silken, Italian blouse he favored for formal meetings. He was wearing his favorite leather shoes, with an added non-slip surface beneath them. Not that he ever feared slipping, but it was a habit from a bygone era when one's footing might cost one's life. And until now, He had been very careful.
He looked down at his hands. They were still the strong hands of a Roman soldier, a bit more weathered, a bit less callused, but still capable of relieving a man of his life with a variety of tools. But the thing he was looking for was gone. His ring was missing. The sigil of his power was missing. This did not mean he was powerless, it meant that for his duty to continue, the ring moved to his successor. That meant he could not leave this prison. And that his power was in the hand of a mortal, for the first time in two millennia. A mortal He truly loved but had poorly prepared for this day.
He could only hope that his impressions all those decades ago were right.
The Director tried to wake from a dream that seemed overwhelming real and quite visceral. It was not his normal condition to dream, having not done so for many years since coming to work at Death, Incorporated. Having not dreamed in decades, left him open to the strange, surreal nature of this dream. He was standing in the middle of a field surrounded by monstrous creatures of all shapes and sizes, wielding a sword of ice and shield comprised of a field of force laying waste to everything around him.
In the distance, he could see demons and angels flashing swords of flame and lightning, illuminating the battlefield. This seemed to last days and nights and then with a final flash of lighting, the battle ended. He was the only thing standing unscathed on the field. Taking in the horrible vista, he wept, openly.
Time passed.
Sensing moving in the corner of his eye, he turned and dropped his terrible, ice-sword, which froze the very air near it and the blade shattered as it struck the ground. It was an Angel still moving slowly, feebly trying to remove the corpse of some horror draped across it. The Director found himself striding toward the Angel with a strange ambivalence in his core. Grabbing the nearest limb of the giant white gorilla, he flung it from the Angel, who sat up.
"Did we win?" the Angel croaked, his voice dry and likely burned from angrily flung cocoastrum during the battle. "I can't see you, please come closer."
"No, I do not think your side won," the Director intoned gravely, "we are the last things alive here, so I can safely assume, my side did not win either. Do you have a name?"
"I was once called Malik, the Guardian, and I guarded the doors to Hell," the Angel glowed visibly upon the recitation of his former station and for a moment seemed more majestic than his current condition, covered in the blood and offal of other creatures would allow.
"You may call me, Aurelius," the Director said. "I think I was once the general of this army but now I am not so sure."
"Well met, former general of a once mighty army. You must have been formidable to have defeated this mighty Host…" Malik began. "I cannot remember why we were fighting, though General. Do you have any memory of the conflict?" The Director seemed surprised by the Angel's confession and had to think deeply himself.
"To be honest, I have no memory of why or how this battle took place. I am willing to forswear any further conflict if you are, Malik of the Angelic Host." The Director's feeling in this regard seemed sincere, even as this very real dream transpired.
"General Aurelius, as much as I appreciate you taking the time to free me from confinement, I am not able to forswear violence toward your person. There is still the matter of the Heavenly Host who even now, tell me to rend thee, limb from limb." Malik seemed pained to admit this and sat back on his haunches and spread his wings. While he was sitting, he appeared to slowly get cleaner and his injuries began to shimmer and heal themselves. "Perhaps we could simply sit a bit longer and see if we can untangle this since there is no one here but you and I. Perhaps we can come to an agreement."
General Aurelius – the Director took in the scene and for a moment was surprised by the carnage – there seemed to be a variety of warriors from a variety of ages, lost in time and space, vast incredible armies with amazing technologies all lay about the battlefield. The General's senses transcended the five and with his extended awareness could see ripples in time and space where these armies were snatched and conscripted. He could also sense the ruptures that the enemy used to reach this battlefield between Time and Space. Until he used those senses, his awareness was limited to this place, this space, this time, suddenly he was aware of a thousand times, a thousand places, where He reigned and suddenly realized where and who He was.
"Malik, Angel of the Host, I declare this conflict completed. And as an act of Mercy, I shall allow you, the final survivor, to return to your Host. Remind them, this is our final conflict. The next time we meet, I shall destroy you and your utterly. Know this and never return," the pronouncement was clearly delivered and chilled the very air around the both of them. There was a weaving of force, of malice, of murderous intent in those words. The General was sure his words were relayed to the Host, even as he said them.
Malik, clearly shaken by the tone, and the message, stood and suddenly his twelve foot stature, seemed to overshadow the tiny General before him. "General, looking around the battlefield, it is clear that you and I are at the locus of something terrible, but I do not believe that you are in any position to make demands, or to cast threats. From where I stand, it is you, who should be looking at surrender. I am Malik, the Guardian, the warder to Hell, the hand of God and Sealer of Doors. You are in no position to make demands." Malik suddenly burst into white flames and a blue flaming sword appeared in each of his hands.
The General looked at the Angel and was momentarily in awe. "Beautiful." With a momentary pause, he whispered, "I'm sorry." The General raised his hand and suddenly the Angel appeared to be in a fearful wind, his flames flickered and were blown backward, wisps blasted back as the wind increased. Malik roared and leapt forward, blades flashing forward, blue fire glowing like the sun. The General Aurelius, the Director, watched in horror as his outstretched fist clenched and some unknown force exploded forward and simply erased the Angel Malik, Guardian and Warder to Hell, Hand of God and Sealer of Doors, from existence.
The Director screamed, a long wail that caused fear in all who heard it, and then he woke, his right hand burning. On his hand was the ring from his dream, bearing the Aspect Skull of Death backed with a nuclear plume, the symbol of the destroyer of Worlds.
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As the birthplace of some of the founders of Impressionism, Normandy is more than valid in its celebration of the arts movement and its greatest masters with this event. It's a summer-long festival that showcases the paintings of Impressionist artists that are most well known and recognised while also revealing how Impressionism was expressed through the other creative media of photography, music, dance and film. You'll find most events take place in Rouen and Caen.
The largest outdoor photo festival in France packs a punch. An exhibition of remarkable photojournalism that scratches at your social and environmental conscience. The imagery will leave you speechless. The themes will beg questions of you. You'll leave La Gacilly enlightened and perhaps even a little numb from the stories that unfold from the photography.
Follow a trail of contemporary art and poetry through this fabulous city. From the LU factory alongside Canal Saint-Felix weave your way passed memorials, castles, parks and the medieval quarter taking in more than 30 art expressions. The trail is marked out on the ground so it's difficult to get lost. Beyond the city, between Nantes and Clisson you canalso follow a road trail of sightseeing opportunities and Muscadet tastings. What a wonderful way to discover this corner of France.
Bright lights and battle music illuminate this historic bay as six nations compete to win the Silver Vestal award for best firework display. France's entry will be displayed at the first event as spectators gather on the Promenade de la Croisette to watch this year's spectacle ignite.
One for all the family – the International Festival of Puppet Art comes every year to Ariege. It's a showcase of modern talent in puppet art, a celebration of creativity and a nod to all areas of puppetry. Quite simply unusual and amazing to observe.
Now we know the French are rather prolific producers of the scented stuff but who knew there was so much to celebrate about lavender. This procession that began almost 90 years ago to promote lavender production continues its traditions today with the addition of firework displays, a grand ball and an international parade of folk groups. Music fills the streets from wandering bands and spectators will likely be handed traditional lavender purses as a memento.
Mix music with fine French wine and good times should be had. Described as an event to come together with friends to savour the tastes of the region and enjoy the extensive programme of entertainment. Allez!
No need to blink or look twice, this food market is as quirky and as colourful as you first glimpse it. The stall holders are attired in costume as they sell their foodie wares from nego-chins (flat bottomed boats). Like a harvest festival of Provencal fruit and vegetables blossomed by the summer sun with splash of wine and dollop of preserves.
One of the world's oldest pro surfing competition this event attracts the world's best and will continue to do so while the activity isn't classed as an Olympic sport. The competitive element of the World Qualifying Series starts on 16 August but until then have a go at the waves yourself, there'll be plenty of know-how on hand.
A weekend-long traditional Breton festival that draws natives and tourists alike. One of the largest celebrations of Breton culture, heritage and diversity you'll doubtless recognise some of the costume, turn your ear to Celtic music and dance performances, be astounded by the water jousting displays and sway a minute or two to traditional sea shanties.
A little bit different this one – a tournament of traditional water jousting set along this port town's Canal Royal in the Languedoc Roussillon. Watch as competitors try to topple each other into the canal although don't expect their sailing whites and straw boaters to survive too well. Sete comes to life during the festival with many street shows and festivities to observe as you wander or from the discretion of your restaurant table.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2016, this classical music festival is said to be one of the most important of its kind in France today. The programme includes baroque and sacred music, plus two special Mass services and celebrates the works of around 50 composers.
The Lorraine region is rather passionate about its great fruit production and export, so this is a week-long festival dedicated to local plums. Tastings, markets, shows, fireworks and crafts aside the Mirabelle Plum Queen is elected during the festival.
Someone with a sense of humour probably gave this celebration of local prunes its name. But this is a family focused food and music festival with a significant nod towards the fruity emblem of Agen. Taste the first prune harvest, savour a food market of regional produce, find a seat at a concert or partake in sporting events. There's something for everyone to mark the end of summer.
So those are our suggestions for August events in France – let us know if you attend any and what you thought.
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Since the first groups appeared in September 1989, "Memorial" has worked to overcome the legacy of totalitarianism. Through wide-reaching surveys a civic council of the movement was formed, made up of well-known writers, scholars and public figures. In January 1989 a founding congress in Moscow created the All-Union Historical – Enlightenment Human Rights and Humanitarian Society "Memorial", adopted a charter and elected leaders. Andrei SAKKHAROV became it honorary Head.
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Since 1991 there has been an International Historical – Enlightenment Human Rights and Humanitarian Society "Memorial".
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Airline delays due to crew problems, weather or heavy traffic contributed to New York area airports being in the bottom ranks among major airports for on-time arrivals and departures, according to data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
At John F. Kennedy International Airport, only 57% of flights arrived on time in July, ranking it last out of the 32 major airports surveyed by the Bureau. Only 62.4% of flights left JFK on time, dropping the airport's on-time departure rank to 30 from 26.
At LaGuardia Airport, 60% of flights arrived on time in July, while slightly over 70% of flights departed on schedule during the month. LaGuardia ranked 31 for on-time arrivals and 22 for departures.
At Newark Liberty International Airport, 61.4% of flights arrived on time in July and 64.5% of flights departed on schedule. Newark ranked lowest for on-time arrival for the seven months ended in July -- only 56.8% of its flights arrived on time in that period.
The Federal Aviation Administration last month announced a series of initiatives aimed at improving on-time performance at the nation's airports, including the replacement of 50-year-old radar technology with new, more accurate, global positioning systems.
On Tuesday, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, which operates the three local airports, wrote a letter to the FAA, asking that the administration start its initial testing of the GPS systems in New York, rather than in smaller markets.
"It is vital that the FAA make the New York region, the largest and most critical market in the country, its first priority for implementation of the new technology," Port Authority Chairman Anthony Coscia and Executive Director Anthony Shorris wrote. The two also recommended that the FAA speed up the process for installing the new technology, currently slated to launch around 2023.
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If you are someone who likes to stay prepared just in case of a disaster, this is the time to stock up.
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar is wanting Texans to remember the weekend of April 28-30. That weekend there will be no sales tax on emergency supplies. With the disaster that Hurricane Harvey had on parts of Texas last year, Hegar is wanting to remind everyone to stay prepared.
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CC McCrankypants and the Evil of Jira.
I am VERY cranky today. at both Linden Lab and the SL userbase.
Want to see what it looks like?
It makes SL totally unusable. Addendum: Also affects Firestorm and a heck of a lot of other 3D applications... so it's an Nvidia thing I think....this time.
And then there's the new inventory copy bug I found in Main Release a few hours before the above hit me.
Some of you may be thinking: "But CC, I thought you used Snowstorm"
That's the gap/line in the neck one, which is anathema to one such as I. The CC is all about the pretty, and that bug maketh the CC less pretty and it must be destroyed.
And then there was THIS one, which messes up inventory search by preventing scrolling down in results.
I rely on inventory search.
All of this makes the CC VERY CRANKY. Don't the Lindens test this stuff out? Am I the only person who runs the viewer on Linux that is a fashionista that actually uses the inventory and changes their outfits and takes screenshots?
Really Linden Lab, you ought to offer bounties to people to test stuff out. Offer various rewards to people that run Snowstorm, reward people when they find bugs, not just those who fix them. Can't fix a bug unless someone finds it first.
Now some of you are thinking: "CC, I run Phoenix, this doesn't matter to me."
Yes it does because you're part of the problem! Stop using Phoenix! That old codebase is creaky and un-maintainable long term, that's what phoenix devs say themselves. Sooner or later LL WILL cut off V1 codebase viewers, they should have done so long ago.
And again some of you are thinking: "But CC I hate the V2 UI, that's why I u se Phoenix."
Oh please, you can make Firestorm use V1 UI, if you need to, but I actually prefer V3 UI. It simply behaves like other applications. Sure it's got discoverability issues (I have a couple of JIRA's on that too), but it's much more like a "normal" application than the V1 pie mess. One of the reasons for the V2 UI change was to make SL more "normal", for people coming into SL. Though the SL userbase being filed with oldbie crankypants, had got used to the quirks old crappy V1, and encouraged some newbies to switch to Phoenix because they didn't know how to use V2 themselves. BAD Residents...BAD BAD. Don't encourage viewer fragmentation!
I'm going to say this again. If you must use a TPV, it should be the latest Firestorm release.


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Speech by Fiona Bruce MP,…
"Before I start, can I wholeheartedly endorse the expression of appreciation for the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon)? It has been my great pleasure to work with him on a number of issues, especially freedom of religion or belief. He is an inspiring leader on that issue, in particular in his role as chair of the all-party parliamentary group.
As my term of office serving as chair of the Conservative party human rights commission comes to an end shortly, I would like to pay tribute to all who over the past few years have contributed to our inquiries and reports, in particular the brave people who have given evidence to us, many at personal risk, and who either themselves or through their families have suffered greatly, often at the hands of their own Governments. I want to put on record my thanks and respect to them. Many are named in our reports. Without them, we as commissioners could not have highlighted the human rights concerns in those reports.
The commission's reports include a 2016 report on human rights in China, 2013 to 2016, entitled "The Darkest Moment"—sadly, now a misnomer. That was followed later that year by a report on forced organ harvesting in China. Under a year later, there was a report on human rights in Russia today. In 2019, there was a report on China's Confucius Institutes, as well as a report entitled "The Limits of Consent on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery and their Impact on Prostitution in the UK". This year, we have held nine sessions to inform a further report, which we will shortly publish on human rights in China 2016 to 2020, entitled, sadly, "The Darkness Deepens".
Promoting and protecting freedom and human dignity should be at the heart of foreign policy. The Conservative party human rights commission was set up by my right hon. Friend the Member for North Somerset (Dr Fox) to highlight international human rights concerns; inform, advise and enhance the party's foreign policy; and ensure that fundamental human rights are kept high on the political agenda. A number of Members of Parliament have been the chair of the Conservative party human rights commission since its creation, but the deputy chair has throughout this 15-year period been the same person, Benedict Rogers, to whom I pay particular tribute. I want to put on record my profound thanks and respect to him. He has not only carried the bulk of the commission's work throughout this entire period, organising witness sessions and producing the first draft of most of our reports, but he has also travelled to dozens—probably hundreds, I have lost count—of places across the world, often at great personal danger. He has been refused entry to one place and arrested and detained in others, meeting directly with those subject to human rights abuses to ensure that our reports are as reliable and authentic as they can be. I know that my respect for Ben is shared by very many parliamentarians in both Houses, and it has been a true privilege to work closely with him in this role.
Four years ago, the Conservative party human rights commission was a canary in the coalmine in Westminster, calling attention to China's human rights crisis almost as a lone voice—in fact, an urgent question I raised in 2015 prompted a furore from some parts of Government—although, of course, many other courageous voices, such as Bob Fu of ChinaAid, have been raising such concerns for years well beyond Westminster. Today, it is heartening that the Conservative party human rights commissioners are but one of many such voices here in the UK Parliament, as yesterday's urgent question on the Uyghurs demonstrated—including voices from within the current Government. We welcome that.
As mentioned, we will shortly be launching a further report expressing concerns on the deepening deterioration of human rights in China, which we hope will serve to continue to highlight these issues and inform further debate—a debate it is critical we have if we are to better understand how, as parliamentarians, we can help to shape a new international order in which the value of human rights and human dignity, the rule of law, democracy, international treaty promises, and freedom of expression, association and religion or belief are better promoted and defended. It is heartening to me how, over my 10 years in this House, expressions of concern by parliamentary colleagues on these issues have noticeably increased, and with impact and effect, not least as we have seen recently with regard to Hong Kong.
Sadly, any such impact cannot yet be said to have happened with regard to the deteriorating human rights situation in China. Among the most dramatic evidence of the decline in human rights there since our commission's last inquiry in 2016 are the violations of the right to freedom of religion or belief. These have become even more egregious, widespread and systematic, according to evidence received by the Conservative party human rights commission this year. As we now know, some of the most egregious violations of freedom of religion or belief affect the Uyghurs, and they encompass an almost total denial of every basic human right. They include their own Government's attacks on the Uighur identity, culture and religion, the breaking up of families, the destruction of thousands of mosques and the recent heart-rending sight of people being loaded on to trains to be transported to prison camps with purpose-built factories alongside them. This was all too reminiscent of the holocaust.
However, it is by no means only the Uyghurs who are being persecuted. For every major religious community in China today—Christians, both Protestant and Catholic, Muslims, Buddhists, practitioners of Falun Gong and others—the situation has become more restricted. Believers across the faiths have been arrested, imprisoned, tortured and even killed in connection with their religion or belief. There are other Muslim groups as well as the Uyghurs in Xinjiang that are affected, as well as the Buddhists in Tibet. Violations against Christians have intensified with the imprisonment of pastors and the desecration or destruction of hundreds of churches.
Accounts to the independent China tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC, which delivered its final judgment in March this year on the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, were truly heart-searing. We are told that persecution by way of forced organ removal is taking place on an industrial scale. It is almost too horrible for the human mind to comprehend. Human beings are being cut open while still alive, without anaesthetic, for their kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs, corneas and skin to be removed and turned into commodities for sale.
We, as commissioners on the Conservative party human rights commission, have found that human rights concerns do not always come neatly packaged and presented. Engaging can be messy, awkward and risky, and speaking truth to power is not comfortable, often as much for the hearer as for the speaker. So, why raise these concerns? It is because, whether we agree with their beliefs or not, these are fellow human beings who are being affected. It is because we should respect the worth of every human being, and because every created individual has value. It is because once we have heard of these things, we should not stay silent. As the holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said:
"Whoever listens to a witness, becomes a witness".
We speak simply because we should, and because, however distant the sufferings of those who hurt might be, we share in their common humanity. In this House we have been granted the profound privilege of having voices that can resonate across the world, and we must use them to speak out on behalf of the most vulnerable, afflicted and oppressed."
You can watch from 15.34 to 15.46 here:
https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/0041215f-98c9-4c34-b643-a2447ae71243?in=15%3A25%3A00&out=15%3A44%3A00&
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Two men have been arrested following a vehicle theft early on Sunday morning in Wetaskiwin County.
RCMP responded to the incident yesterday where the complainant was able to give a detailed account of where the two alleged suspects had traveled and police were able to successfully spike belt the vehicle in which one of the suspects was driving.
That resulted in a short chase but eventually, the two males were apprehended by police.
Guy Roasting of Pigeon Lake and Patrick Hurley from Leduc County are each facing charges of possession of a stolen vehicle and break-in tools and Hurley is also facing two charges of breach of release conditions.
Roasting meanwhile has also been charged with two counts of assault on a police officer, along with charges of flight from police, prohibited driving, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and operating a motor vehicle without insurance.


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Q: CommonJS require vs. ES6 import discrepancy So, I am new to React. Apologies if I am missing something obvious, I'm wrestling with a weird issue with my ES6 imports.
I'm using the @typeform/embed module (0.12.1), which oddly links to a GitHub repo on npm but that repo doesn't exist. So I haven't been able to look into potentially related issues.
Anyways, whenever I do the following:
import typeformEmbed from '@typeform/embed'
My text editor shows that the type of typeformEmbed is a string, and when I go to invoke a function on it, it is always undefined. Gives me the 'ole cannot invoke property X on undefined TypeError. It almost looks as if it is trying to import the README?
But, then I opened up my Node REPL and could write:
const typeformEmbed = require('@typeform/embed')
and it works like a charm.
Is there some discrepancy between the two that I am missing?
Edit: I know that this question is pretty text-heavy, let me know if there is crucial information that I'm missing. I should mention that I built this project with create-react-app.

A: import * as typeformEmbed from '@typeform/embed';

const popUpHandler = () => {

typeformEmbed.makePopup(
  'https://admin.typeform.com/to/PlBzgL',
  {
     mode: 'drawer_left',
     autoOpen: true,
     autoClose: 3,
     hideScrollbars: true,
     onSubmit: function () {
       console.log('Typeform successfully submitted')
  }
 }
)}

Should work for you

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A Look Ahead at the NBA on Christmas Day
An analysis of storylines and predictions for the slate of five NBA Christmas day games following a record-short (COVID-influenced) offseason.
photo by Kira Zizzo
Take a look into storylines and predictions for each of the five Christmas day matchups.
by Luka Owen, Reporter
Top 10 players to watch on Christmas
1. Giannis Antetokounmpo- MIL
2. LeBron James- LAL
3. Luka Dončić- DAL
4. Anthony Davis- LAL
5. Kawhi Leonard- LAC
6. Kevin Durant- BKN
7. Stephen Curry- GSW
8. Jimmy Butler- MIA
9. Paul George- LAC
10. Jayson Tatum- BOS
72 days marks a record-short offseason following what will surely go down as the most bizarre NBA season in league history.
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league Hiatus halted play starting March 11 2020, and caused for the season to continue through mid-October. This leaves players from 22 of the leagues 30 teams with just over two months to prepare for their first game of the 2020-2021 season.
Nonetheless, the show must go on. The NBA Christmas games, which usually mark the midway point of the season, will now be played on the third day of the season. This festive day of basketball traditionally features some of the league's best matchups for the entire season, and this year is no exception.
Here is an in-depth look at the biggest storylines and predictions for each of the five tremendous Christmas day matchups.
Game #1: New Orleans Pelicans vs Miami Heat
Where and When:
10:00 AM MST on ESPN
Top Storylines:
After an underwhelming 2019-2020 campaign, the Pelicans look to develop their young core into a true playoff threat.
After a surprising move in the trade of Jrue Holiday to the Milwaukee Bucks, the New Orleans front office aimed to emphasize their trust in their young trio of Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball, and Zion Williamson.
Williamson, the high school/college phenom and former first overall pick, will be playing in his first season opener and Christmas day game after missing the majority of last season with a torn right lateral meniscus (CNN sports). Williamson managed a strong 22.5 points per game and 6.3 rebounds per game in his 24 appearances in his rookie season.
On the other end, Miami comes into the 2020-2021 season with sky-high expectations after their performance in the NBA playoffs last year shattered their projections. The five seeded Heat managed to win the series against the fourth seeded Pacers, first seeded Bucks, and third seeded Celtics on an improbable run to the NBA Finals where they were later defeated by the Los Angeles Lakers in six games.
Superstar Small Forward Jimmy Butler aims to build off of a career best season a year ago, while playing in a mentorship role for a young and hungry Miami squad.
Furthermore, Miami fans will watch closely at the play of big man Bam Adebayo, as his max contract extension signed this offseason plans to earn him a tremendous $163 million over the next five seasons. Bam will be playing under immense pressure to show that he is worth the high price tag.
ESPN odds:
MIA -5.5
RCHS Student Predictions (Against the Spread):
Luka Owen '21 (author): MIA
Matthew Procter '21: NO
Ryan Kennedy '21: MIA
Ty Hall '21: NO
Ben England '22: MIA
Owen Barrett '22: MIA
Game #2: Golden State Warriors vs Milwaukee Bucks
12:30 MST on ABC
For the second straight season, the Golden State Warriors will be without the play of five time all star Shooting Guard Klay Thompson, after he suffered a season ending achilles tear while working out in Southern California on November 18th.
This means that superstar Point Guard Steph Curry will likely be forced to hold the load for an otherwise young Golden State team. Curry looks to regain his offensive dominance after a broken hand kept him out of all but five games a season ago.
Additionally, Golden State bolstered their starting lineup this offseason, drafting Center James Wiseman from Memphis with the second overall pick in the NBA draft, and trading a first round pick for Small Forward Kelly Oubre Jr. from Oklahoma City.
The Warriors will look to reinstate themselves after a horrific 2019-2020 season in which they won just a measly 15 games, snapping a streak of five consecutive NBA Finals appearances.
Meanwhile, Milwaukee added the 11 year veteran and former UCLA Bruin Point guard Jrue Holiday in a trade with New Orleans in which they were forced to give up three future first round picks, as well as Point Guards Eric Bledsoe and George Hill.
With this effort to pair another star-caliber player with back to back MVP champion Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee seems to be in a "Finals or bust" mindset entering this season. Antetokounmpo was secured by the Bucks December 15 with a supermax extension worth $228.2 million over the next five seasons.
MIL -7.0
Luka Owen '21 (author): MIL
Matthew Procter '21: GSW
Ryan Kennedy '21: GSW
Ty Hall '21: MIL
Ben England '22: MIL
Owen Barrett '22: MIL
Game #3: Brooklyn Nets vs Boston Celtics
3:00 MST on ABC
Kevin Durant is back! NBA fans will get to see one of the league's best back on the court for the first time since rupturing his achilles tendon in the 2019 NBA Finals. Durant's road to recovery has been long and arduous, so his return to the NBA court is a huge milestone.
After winning two NBA Finals (and two Finals MVP awards) in just three seasons in Golden State, Durant looks to start a new chapter alongside the great Kyrie Irving in Brooklyn.
Irving will once again be making his return to the Boston Square Garden, more than a year after opting out of his $21.3 million player option with the Celtics at the end of the 2018-2019 season.
In August of 2017, Irving was traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Boston Celtics, bringing along with him the hope to restore Boston's dominance among the NBA landscape. However, this experiment by the Celtics coaches and front office proved to be a bust, as in two seasons, he was unable to lead the team past the Eastern Conference Finals.
Questions of lingering bitterness between Irving and the Celtics organization are the headline of this bigtime matchup on Christmas day.
BKN -1.0
Luka Owen '21 (author): BKN
Matthew Procter '21: BKN
Ryan Kennedy '21: BKN
Ty Hall '21: BOS
Ben England '22: BOS
Owen Barrett '22: BKN
Game #4: Dallas Mavericks vs Los Angeles Lakers
The enticing matchup of reigning first team All NBA winners LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Luka Dončić takes the spotlight in the first of two night games on Christmas day.
Dončić entered this season as one of the league's premier players at just age 21, after an All Star sophomore season with Dallas. He is a trendy preseason MVP candidate, and if he were to win the prestigious award, he would tie Derrick Rose for the youngest ever to receive the award (22).
In the City of Angels, the Lakers have constructed what looks to a lineup capable of being the next NBA dynasty after winning the Finals a season ago. Although James and Davis by themselves could be enough to propel any lineup to a championship, the Lakers added several more key pieces in the offseason.
After the departures of veterans Dwight Howard and Rajon Rondo following the team's championship win, Frank Vogel's Lakers team made a splash in free agency, obtaining former sixth man of the year Center Montrezl Harrell from the Clippers, as well as trading for sixth man of the year candidate and Point Guard Dennis Schröder from Oklahoma City.
The Lakers have their eyes on their first consecutive NBA Championships since the late Kobe Bryant led Lakers in 2009 and 2010.
LAL -7.0
Luka Owen '21 (author): LAL
Matthew Procter '21: LAL
Ryan Kennedy '21: DAL
Ty Hall '21: LAL
Ben England '22: DAL
Owen Barrett '22: DAL
Game #5: Los Angeles Clippers vs Denver Nuggets
This matchup features a rematch of the 2020 Western Conference Semifinals in which the Denver Nuggets sent shockwaves through the basketball world by overcoming a three to one deficit and winning the series in seven games.
The Clippers entered the series as heavy favorites, as many NBA analysts had foreseen an LA vs LA Western Conference Finals since well before the season started. The Clippers will look to get their revenge on the Nuggets on Christmas.
In the Mile High City, Nuggets fans anxiously await the play of Jamal Murray, as they hope he can maintain the electric performance that he brought forth in the 2020 playoffs. The 23 year old point guard averaged 26.5 points and 6.6 assists in 19 playoff games last season, helping propel the Nuggets to their fourth ever Western Conference Finals.
Meanwhile, the Clippers made a major move December 10th, re-signing Small Forward Paul George to a maximum contract worth $190 million over four seasons. NBA fans are well aware of George's capabilities as a former first team all NBA and MVP candidate caliber player.
However, the timing of the contract does seem a bit peculiar, considering George is coming off of a historically bad postseason by his standards, in which he earned the nickname "Pandemic P" after shooting a pitiful 32% in the second half of all postseason games last year.
LAC -1.0
Luka Owen '21 (author): LAC
Matthew Procter '21: DEN
Ryan Kennedy '21: LAC
Ty Hall '21: LAC
Ben England '22: DEN
Owen Barrett '22: DEN
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Q: How to display lines in a file like ls displays files in a directory? I have a long file with short lines (one word) f that I would like to inspect.
It would fit on the screen if it wasn't for the newlines.
If the data was already arranged in columns I could just do column -t but I want my one column to be split into many.
Knowing the length of the file I could just do:
$ sed -n  '1,10p' f > f1
$ sed -n '11,20p' f > f2
$ sed -n '21,30p' f > f3
$ sed -n '31,40p' f > f4
$ sed -n '41,50p' f > f5
$ paste f[1-5]

I imagine one could also make a new directory, apply touch on every line, do ls, delete the directory.
But is there an easy way to do this without creating any files?

A: Alternatively, there's the fmt utility (check your local man page):
$ seq 100 > f
$ fmt --width 50 file
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66
67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82
83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98
99 100

or pr:
$ pr -15 -w 50 -a -s' ' -t file
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45
46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75
76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 10

A: With zsh:
$ seq 20 > file
$ print -rC5 -- ${(f)"$(<file)"}
1   5   9   13  17
2   6   10  14  18
3   7   11  15  19
4   8   12  16  20
$ print -raC5 -- ${(f)"$(<file)"}
1   2   3   4   5
6   7   8   9   10
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The greatest thing about fashion is how you can express yourself on a day-to-day basis. As fluid as fashion is in, people are always experimenting with different styles, becoming bolder with their statement pieces.
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Crown Princess Adelaide will, one day, inherit the Eagle Scepter of her father, Emperor Frederick Redbeard. But will there be a throne to inherit? For behold: their mighty Empire, and all of the lesser powers of the world, are beset by invaders from the sky, hideous creatures seemingly bent on the destruction of all life. Even the legions of her mighty father seem unable to stop the relentless advance of the creatures which plummet to the surface of the world, riding in smoldering pods, then spill out and immediately attack.
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What was the device? Could Adelaide find it, and, using any skill – magical or otherwise, restore it so that the invasion from the stars might be stopped? First setting out with a small entourage, she was intercepted and confined, her father furiously berating his only heir from placing her life at risk at a time that he faced death in battle on an almost daily basis. But Adelaide was as willful and single-minded as her father -- soon escaping confinement, she gathered a motley band to accompany her to the Northern Pole, looking for what, and exactly where, she did not know, knowing only that she would find it …..
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Her mother dead in childbirth and her father often absent fighting his wars of conquest, Crown Princess Adelaide was raised by the nuns of the Holy Order, and by her aunt, Adelheid. The sisters of the Holy Order and their narrowminded catechism bored the adventurous girl, but she loved to spend time with her blacksheep aunt, who revealed the existence of supernatural powers, and taught her a few tricks she had learned from a banned book. Adelaide practiced these tricks and improved them, and it soon dawned on her that they were more than sleights of hand. In fact, they represented an entire hidden aspect of existence which she yearned to better understand. As she grew older, Adelaide became obsessed with collecting books of magic and scrolls of power, learning the spells and taking in the knowledge that had been, in older times, such a threat to the stability of civilization that they were banned outright in the Imperium. Meanwhile, to please her father, whose mind dwells constantly on further conquest, Adelaide has not neglected her duties as the Imperium's future warlord, and has spent many hours with her father's high nobility learning strategy and tactics. As a result she has also developed the skill and willpower to lead a warband in battle.
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Stephen James (Steve) Moneghetti (Ballarat, 26 september 1962) is een Australische voormalige langeafstandsloper. Hij werd vooral bekend als marathonloper. Hij werd Gemenebestkampioen in deze discipline. Ook nam hij viermaal deel aan de Olympische Spelen, maar veroverde bij geen van die gelegenheden medailles.

Biografie

Begin
Op school werd Moneghetti niet beschouwd als een atletiektalent. Hij blonk niet uit in spurt- of springnummers, maar bleek later wel goed te zijn op langeafstandsnummers. "Hoe langer de afstand, hoe beter ik presteerde." Na zijn studies deed hij aanvankelijk mee op de 10.000 m, maar ging al snel marathons lopen. In totaal liep hij 22 marathons en in 20 daarvan eindigde hij in de top-elf.

Hij liep zijn eerste marathon op de Gemenebestspelen 1986 in Edinburgh, en behaalde daar brons. Vier jaar later, op de Gemenebestspelen 1990, veroverde hij zelfs het zilver.

Eerste marathonzege
Zijn eerste overwinning was in de marathon van Berlijn in 1990, in een tijd van 2:08.16, zijn persoonlijk record en de snelste tijd op de marathon dat jaar. Dat jaar won hij ook de Great North Run, een halve marathon.

Steve Moneghetti zegevierde in de jaren erna op de marathon van Tokio in 1994 en op die bij de Gemenebestspelen 1994. In 1998 won hij een bronzen medaille op de 10.000 m bij de Gemenebestspelen.

Deelname WK's en OS
Hij liep de marathon op de wereldkampioenschappen atletiek van 1987 (4e), 1991 (11e), 1995 (8e), 1997 (brons), en 1999 (29e). Bij de wereldkampioenschappen atletiek 1993 kwam hij uit op de 10.000 m, waarin hij werd uitgeschakeld in de halve finale.

Moneghetti deed viermaal mee aan de marathon op de Olympische Spelen: 1988 (5e), 1992 (48e), 1996 (7e) en 2000 (10e).

Hij nam ook tienmaal deel aan het wereldkampioenschap veldlopen, met als beste resultaat een vierde plaats in 1989 in Stavanger.

Einde
Na de Olympische Spelen van 2000 in Sydney stopte Moneghetti als topsporter, maar hij bleef zich inzetten voor de sport. Sedert 2001 is hij voorzitter van het bestuur van het Victorian Institute of Sport. Hij geeft ook lezingen. In 2004 was hij nog eerste master bij de marathon van Parijs.

Steve Moneghetti is getrouwd en vader van vier kinderen.

Titels
 Gemenebestkampioen marathon - 1994
 Australisch kampioen 15 km - 1987

Persoonlijk records
Baan

Weg

Palmares

5000 m
 1987:  America's Cup Invitational in Perth - 13.51
 1988:  Australische kamp. - 13.44,0
 1988:  Valentine's Day Meeting in Melbourne - 13.46,30
 1989: 4e Grand Prix in Melbourne - 13.46,15
 1989: 4e AIS Drug Offensive Meet in Melbourne - 13.30,84
 1991: 5e NEC Meet in Melbourne - 13.34,13
 1991:  Australische kamp. - 13.52,95
 1992: 4e Australische kamp. - 13.38,55
 1992: 5e Panasonic/ British Trials in Birmingham - 13.33,56
 1992: 4e Melbourne - 13.44,3
 1995: 4e Australische kamp. - 13.55,88
 1996:  NEC Classic in Melbourne - 13.25,77
 1996: 6e Australische kamp. - 13.47,10
 1998: 5e Australische kamp. - 13.49,05
 2002:  Shield Competition at Llanberis in Ballarat - 15.39,36

10.000 m
 1986:  Australische kamp. - 28.41,24
 1986: 5e Gemenebestspelen - 28.29,20
 1987:  Canberra Meeting - 28.09,04
 1987: 5e Mt San Antonio College Relays in Walnut - 28.18,1
 1987:  Emil Zatopek Meeting in Melbourne - 28.07,37
 1988:  Australian Olympic Trials in Canberra - 28.18,98
 1989:  Australische kamp. in Melbourne - 28.28,02
 1989:  Australian in Canberra - 28.28,02
 1989:  Emil Zatopek Meeting in Melbourne - 27.55,05
 1990:  Emil Zatopek Meeting in Melbourne - 28.01,76
 1991:  Emil Zatopek in Melbourne - 27.57,45
 1992:  Zatopek Memorial in Melbourne - 28.06,25
 1993: 12e series WK - 29.21,18
 1993:  Zatopek Memorial in Melbourne - 28.03,65
 1994:  Zatopek Memorial in Melbourne - 28.03,48
 1995:  Optus Zatopek Classic in Melbourne - 27.48,94
 1996: 5e Zatopek Memorial in Melbourne - 28.00,88
 1998:  Gemenebestspelen - 29.02,76
 2002:  Telstra Zatopek Classic in Melbourne - 28.33,68
 2003:  Telstra Zatopek Classic in Melbourne - 28.42,93
 2005: 4e Telstra Zatopek Classic in Melbourne - 29.28,4

5 km
 1994:  Nike/Magnum in Noosa - 14.08
 1996:  Noosa Gatorade Bolt - 13.52
 2002: 5e New Balance Bolt in Noosa - 14.04

10 km
 1985:  Burnie - 28.53
 1987:  First Victoria in Melbourne - 28.33
 1988:  Burnie - 29.03
 1992:  Olympic Dream in Melbourne - 28.19
 1993:  Burnie - 28.39
 2000:  Flemington Road Race in Melbourne - 28.15
 2001:  Skilled Burnie - 28.55
 2001:  Olympic Dream in Melbourne - 29.26,5
 2002:  Olympic Dream in Melbourne - 29.35
 2003:  Victorian in Sandown Park - 29.03
 2003:  Herald Sun Olympic Dream in Melbourne - 29.34
 2004:  Nike in Melbourne - 30.35
 2004:  Nike in Sydney - 30.16
 2004:  Herald Sun Olympic Dream in Melbourne - 29.47
 2005:  Victorian in Melbourne - 29.38
 2005:  Olympic Dream in Melbourne - 29.42
 2013:  Townsville Airport Classic - 33.10

15 km
 1987:  Australische kamp. - 44.11
 1988: 5e Gold Coast in Sanctuary Cove - 45.01
 1990:  Cascade Run Off in Portland - 43.08
 2010:  Lake Wendouree Road Race in Ballarat - 46.08
 2011: 5e Lake Wendouree in Ballarat - 47.12,5

10 Eng. mijl
 1989:  Virginia - 48.02

halve marathon
 1989:  Philadelphia Distance Run - 1:02.03
 1990:  Great North Run - 1:00.34
 1991: 4e halve marathon van Milaan - 1:01.33
 1992:  halve marathon van Tokio - 1:00.27
 1993:  halve marathon van Tokio - 1:00.08
 1993:  halve marathon van Gold Coast - 1:01.48
 1993:  WK in Brussel - 1:01.10
 1994:  halve marathon van Sydney - 1:02.51
 1997:  halve marathon van Sydney - 1:02.32
 2001:  halve marathon van Tanunda - 1:06.44
 2001:  halve marathon van Lake Macquarrie - 1:04.59
 2005:  halve marathon van Sydney - 1:04.33
 2006:  halve marathon van Noosa - 1:07.55
 2007:  halve marathon van Noosa - 1:09.20
 2009:  halve marathon van Noosa - 1:08.46
 2014:  halve marathon van Adelaide - 1:15.31
 2014: 4e halve marathon van Melbourne - 1:09.43

marathon
 1986:  Gemenebestspelen - 2:11.18
 1987: 4e WK in Rome - 2:12.49
 1988: 5e OS in Seoel - 2:11.49
 1990:  marathon van Berlijn - 2:08.16
 1990:  Gemenebestspelen - 2:10.34
 1991: 11e WK in Tokio - 2:19.18
 1992: 48e OS in Barcelona - 2:23.42
 1993:  marathon van Tokio - 2:12.36
 1994:  marathon van Tokio - 2:08.55
 1994:  Gemenebestspelen - 2:11.49
 1995: 8e WK in Göteborg - 2:16.13
 1995:  marathon van Londen - 2:08.33
 1996: 10e Boston Marathon - 2:11.17
 1996: 7e OS in Atlanta - 2:14.35
 1997: 6e marathon van Londen - 2:08.45
 1997:  WK in Athene - 2:14.16
 1998: 9e marathon van Londen - 2:11.41
 1999: 29e WK in Sevilla - 2:20.32
 2000: 7e marathon van Tokio - 2:10.00
 2000: 10e OS in Sydney - 2:14.50
 2001: 9e marathon van Sydney - 2:46.0
 2003: 30e marathon van Otsu - 2:17.14
 2004: 26e marathon van Parijs - 2:19.27 (1e VET)
 2006: 4e marathon van Blacktown - 2:48.59
 2013:  marathon van Port Douglas - 3:16.24
 2015:  marathon van Port Douglas - 3:07.21

veldlopen
 1985: 103e WK (lange afstand) - 35.22
 1986:  Wereld Studenten kampioenschappen - 40.17
 1986: 22e WK (lange afstand) - 36.25,2
 1987: 11e WK (lange afstand) - 37.11
 1988: 21e WK (lange afstand) - 36.16
 1989: 4e WK (lange afstand) - 40.24
 1991: 15e WK (lange afstand) - 34.37
 1992: 6e WK (lange afstand) - 37.23
 1997: 46e WK (lange afstand) - 37.11
 2001: 41e WK (lange afstand) - 41.39
 2004: 30e WK (lange afstand) - 38.01

overige
 1991:  Lilac Bloomsday 12 km - 34.52

Australisch atleet
Australisch olympisch deelnemer
Langeafstandsloper
Marathonloper

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Do you put a label on your quilts?
Thread: Do you put a label on your quilts?
I am finishing up the biggest quilt project that I have ever attempted....and I am thinking about putting a label on the quilts, but I have never done this before. How do you guys put labels on your quilts? I have a short 4 line poem that I wanted to include on the label - - hoping to keep it within 3" square or so. I am considering embroidering the poem and date... then putting the label on the back of the quilt as an applique. Does this seem reasonable? The back of most of the quilts are fleece - can you applique on fleece? What do you guys think?
I have sewnsewer2 here on the board machine embroider my labels.
Thank you for your reply...not sure that I understand what you are saying. Do you embroider right onto your quilt? Or do you embroider on a separate label and apply that to your quilt? If so, how do you apply? Do you applique or just sew the label on?
I would embroider a label then attach to quilt. I wouldn't want to take away from my quilt.
I have been very pleased with sewnsewer's labels she makes for me. She gives you lots of choices of fonts and colors and even little logos. Here is what I do. After I have ordered and received my label, which comes on a square of cotton with pellon on back for stability, I trim around the pellon. I decided how large I want my label to be and then cut a square of muslin just a bit larger. I trim the label with 1/4 inch extra and with label face down (important!!!) on the muslin, I sew all around with 1/4 inch seam. Then carefully make a small cut in the muslin and turn the label right side out. Then I sew around the outside edge to make it look nice, iron and then blind stitch it onto the back of the quilt. Hope that helps. PM me if you need more info.
My mom usually hand writes them on a separate label to the back lower corner. I love that it is in her own handwriting. She signs and dates them also.
If possible, I pick a plain ish piece of fabric used in the making of the quilt and embroider my own label with the available stitches on my Janome 6600P and then fasten it via appliqué with a decorative stitch or by quilting it through all layers. I put mine on the back lower corner and fasten it into the binding so it is not easily removed ;-).
I pick a thread color that blends with back and doesn't stand out too much, then embroider on the backing. That way it can never be removed in case of loss or theft.
I bought a set a pigma pens and make my own labels. Just yesterday, when I was making the bed, I noticed the label on the quilt and thought ..... wow! I made this quilt almost 10 years ago. I print my labels and sometimes draw a little picture. Then I just turn the edges under, press, and hand stitch it to the back corner. Nothing fancy.
Even though you "hate" your handwriting, those who follow you will treasure seeing it and remember you fondly. I just love when I find things written by my parents or other loved ones who have passed on. It's a part of them.
I use 'sort of' the same method as SandyinZ4....EXCEPT instead of sewing the label to muslin I sew it to lightweight interfacing, sewing the right side of the label to the bumpy side of the interfacing. Then snip a hole in the interfacing and turn right sides out. Position your label where you want it on your quilt and press it on to fuse it to the quilt. I use a press cloth when I do this. Now the label is firmly attached, has no raw edges and is ready to handstitch on.
A dear friend had some labels made up for me. I used a lot of them. I prefer to not use labels. Just doesn't sound important to me.
embroider on the binding prior to attaching...kind of like a running story line. this one takes me the longest but personally think it's the 'coolest'.
No. The recipient knows where it came from, and if they claim they made it, I don't care.
Thank you for you responses... gave me somethings to think about.
I purchased C. Jenkins Miracle Fabric Sheets and either locate clip art borders/frames that I can add text to, print on fabric side, and follow instructions on the package to heat set and cold set the label, then turn under 1/4" seam and hand sew onto the quilt back. Sometimes, I might use a photo I've taken and add text on top.
I like the idea of using interfacing to make a clean edge. The 1/4" seam turned under isn't that easy to keep straight.
I do have an embroidery attachment for my machine....only used once in 5+ years. Someday!
I label all of my quilts.
There are a few different ways to do it and it sounds like you're on the right track!
Yes, you can applique on fleece if you carefully stitch it.
I can't wait to see your finished project. Post pictures of it please!
I use a good grade of muslin cut to whatever size I need to give the information about the quilt. I use a Pigma pen or a fine point Sharpie to hand write the information because I think that is more personal, sort of like having my mother's recipes written in her own hand. I frequently sash the muslin with fabric from the face of the quilt.


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Institutionalising Federalism
The establishment of the ISC was necessitated by the changes in the Indian party system and the institutional transformations associated with it.
Written by Rekha Saxena
Updated: July 28, 2016 06:04 IST
Strengthen Centre-state relations by giving the Inter-State Council teeth.
The eleventh meeting of the Inter-State Council (ISC) held on July 16, 2016, after a gap of 10 years came as a bolt from the blue. This delayed convening is surprising given Narendra Modi's harping on the theme of "cooperative federalism" during the 2014 election campaign.
While convening the ISC meeting, Modi described the forum as the most significant platform to strengthen Centre-state and inter-state relations and discuss policies. A federal system needs interactions between the various levels of government, namely, the union, state and local. Therefore, the need for an inter-governmental mechanism is obvious in this system. The framers of early federal constitutions, swayed by the classical notion of dual sovereignty, did not visualise the need for inter-governmental forums.
However, the architects of India's Constitution saw the need for inter-governmental forums in the working of the federal system. There was a consensus during the Constituent Assembly debates on establishing such a forum. In spite of the legal status bestowed upon the ISC under Article 263, it was not set up until the Janata Dal-led National Front Government headed by V.P Singh accepted the recommendation of the Sarkaria Commission and established the ISC by a presidential ordinance on May 28, 1990.
The establishment of the ISC was necessitated by the changes in the Indian party system and the institutional transformations associated with it. This body was set up as an instrument for cooperation, coordination and evolution of common policies. Under Article 263 of the Constitution, the ISC is mandated to ensure better Centre-state cooperation and resolve Centre-state or inter-state issues. However, it has been largely underutilised. In its first meeting in October 1990, then PM V.P. Singh agreed to institutionalise the procedure for regular consultation between the states and the Centre. The ISC had then proposed to meet thrice a year, but in 26 years, it has met only 11 times.
The reasons for this failure to emerge as an active inter-governmental forum can be discussed in terms of two phases. First, in the first four decades of the Indian federation during which the ISC was not formally set up, the Congress was dominant at the national and state levels.
Therefore, issues were discussed across the table at party forums. During this phase, the ISC was also sidelined because economic planning necessitated the creation of the National Development Council (NDC) which worked as a functional substitute for the Inter-State Council. Second, in the multi-party coalition phase since 1989, the importance of the ISC was further reduced as some state parties were represented in the federal coalition government at the Centre and the Union cabinet itself became a kind of inter-governmental forum.
The return of the single-party majority government at the Centre in 2014 has necessitated the strengthening of inter-governmental mechanisms for the harmonious working of the federal structure. In this milieu, there is a great need to empower institutions like ISC and make them more interactive, inclusive, transparent and accountable. The ISC can work as an effective forum of cooperative federalism.
The ISC needs to be given all the powers contemplated in the Constitution. Clause A of Article 263, which gave the council the power to investigate issues of inter-state conflict, was dropped in the presidential ordinance establishing the ISC. It should provide greater opportunities to civil society institutions and the corporate sector to make their representations.
Moreover, the ISC and NITI Aayog should be merged into one constitutional forum to improve the institutional participation of state governments in inter-governmental affairs. It will enhance the institutional status of the NITI Aayog by being attached to a constitutional body i.e. the ISC. Further, to make the ISC a truly federal rather than a central body, its secretariat should be shifted from the Union Home Ministry to the Rajya Sabha secretariat so that it would be under the direction of a neutral federal functionary, the vice-president of India rather than Union home minister.
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